Castro County Hospital District Dba Country View L

To go along with its strong overall grade, we awarded this nursing home a grade of A+ for our inspections rating. These inspection scores weigh several factors, including deficiencies and substantiated complaints. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. We were not able to find deficiency data for this nursing home. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

To complement its high-end accomplishments in other areas, we gave this facility a score of A- for its long-term care score. In a long-term care setting, the facility's primary objective is to maintain residents' quality of life and keep them safe. This facility performed well enough in these metrics to earn an impressive grade in this category.

Adding to its profile, this facility also earned a grade of B+ for its nursing rating. This is a well above average score in this category. Our nursing score weighs quite a few factors, but the most important one is the number of nurse hours per patient per week. This nursing home provides 0.8 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This facility performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a place has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can generally be prevented if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

The next area we graded is short-term care, where this nursing home received a B. This actually ended up being this nursing home's worst area. A nursing home could be doing a lot worse when their poorest grade still outperforms most nursing homes. Our short-term care ratings are arguably most important for individuals needing rehabilitation services. Rehabilitation generally mandates higher levels of skilled nursing services. This includes not only nursing services, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this facility employs registered nurses. Not every facility employs these types of nurses. However, based on the data this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of residents who returned home from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this facility's patients returned home.